Installing Ubuntu or Fedora via PXE Netboot

If you plan to install without burning CDs or DVDs or using boot disks, then this could be what you want. This post will show you how I installed Fedora 7 on Dell Inspiron 6400 via PXE Netboot, and Fedora 7 installing data from a HTTP server which is run by Fedora Core 6. Since I was planning installing Ubuntu Feisty, therefore I will also mention the steps for Ubuntu Feisty. I won’t explain the detail steps of installing those services but I will provide links.

Says

Installed computer with MAC address 00:11:22:33:44:55 and will be assigned IP 192.168.1.2.

Note: Once you boot with Fedora’s netboot installing method, you will be able to use local or external(USB) disk, FTP, HTTP or NFS to retrieve installing data. Therefore, you can choose one of them to install Fedora.

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Preparing installing data

Depends on the method that you will take, make /media/iso can be access through the method.

Restart

Restart all services.

Steps on 192.168.1.2

Booting up with PXE

Fedora

If everything is ok, vmlinuz and initrd.img will be loaded automatically. Once loaded, you will be prompted to choose the language.
Note: If you plan to use external disk, please plug it in before vmlinuz and initrd.img being loaded and don’t put the image iso in NTFS partition.

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If everything is ok, you will see the Ubuntu logo. Press “Enter” to start installation.

This helps resolve a chicken-and-egg problem: relevant if you are setting up netboot and do not have access to a Fedora machine until you have set up netboot.

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